In a year that has seen many CoveritLive experiences shine bright, the NFL Draft proved to be one of the brightest stars of 2014 to-date. In this week’s special NFL Draft edition of the weekly CoveritLive Social TV rankings, the draft put up stats as impressive as those that Jadeveon Clowney, Blake Bortles and Sammy Watkins posted in their decorated collegiate careers.

The three-day event attracted coverage from NFL.com, NFL team sites, broadcasters, news organizations and fan sites. In total, just over 100 CiL experiences were hosted as 1.5 million viewers joined the social experiences to learn which players landed on their favorite teams.

The 2014 golf season is in full swing and beginning this weekend the first of the four majors kicks off at Augusta National. The Masters tourney is the first big opportunity of the season to engage with golf fans and viewers through CoveritLive real-time engagement experiences. CoveritLive live blogs, chats and socials streams coupled with LiveScores automated scoreboards allow broadcasters, publishers and golf bloggers around the world to interact with golf fans with ease as each tournament unfolds. Read more...

In the fall of 2011 CoveritLive released a major update to our API. This included numerous improvements such as standardizing and simplifying how clients worked with endpoints, and extending API functionality to encompass virtually every component of the CoveritLive event experience. Since then we've continued to extend and improve version 2 of the API, as new functionality has been added to the platform and as our customers have identified creative new ways to use it.

French publisher Le Monde has been a prominent CoveritLive user for many years and their custom implemenations of CiL are some of the best and most successful experiences out there. Check out this case study to learn about the variety of use cases that Le Monde utilizes, including their unique home page, expanding window for highlighting breaking news events.

The month of March saw CoveritLive users join the third most live experiences in a single month to-date. This installment’s infographic presentation explores March’s events that were highlighted by the Oscars, unrest in Ukraine, NHL Trade Deadline, the NFL’s free agency period, MLB’s Opening Day and elections in France. Here is a peek at key data and highlights from the top events of the month.

Recently Channel 4, a British public-service television broadcaster utilized CoveritLive in a unique fashion as it directly incorporated a live social stream into its ‘What the 4? interactive studio experience. Real-time Twitter content was delivered live to the expert team of Paul Mason, Marta Mulyak, Kate Malby and Alexander Nekrassov in the studio for their ‘#WT4 happens next in Ukraine?’ interactive show.

The latest edition of CoveritLive rolled out today, delivering an outstanding, well-rounded set of new features for users to utilize in their upcoming live chats, live blogs, social streams and LiveContentWalls. The 3.25 release features EventStudio Prep Mode that allows users to access the backend Producer console prior to launching a CiL experience, as well as several social source enhancements and an option for a “Transparent” background when designing LiveContentWalls.

The start of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship is rapidly approaching and March Madness will be in full swing in less than a month. As you make preparations for covering the 2014 tournament, remember that CoveritLive is the perfect tool for engaging with fans around the world.

The month of February saw CoveritLive users join the most live events in a single month since the self-service model launched in July 2012. This installment’s infographic presentation explores February’s events that were highlighted by the Winter Olympics, unrest in Ukraine, winter weather coverage and more. Here is a peek at key data and highlights from the top events of the month.

CoveritLive is the leading live-event publishing platform. Since its release in 2007, CoveritLive has been used by thousands of writers to engage millions of readers around the world. It is actively used both by traditional bloggers, journalists, major brands and mainstream media.